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Berakhot

Also called blessings, brachot.

The short fixed blessings said over food, drink and ordinary acts in Jewish practice.

A berakhah is a short fixed blessing, and the class of them covers the textures of an ordinary day: bread, wine, other food and drink, smelling something fragrant, seeing lightning, hearing bad news, putting on a new garment.

Each opens with the same formula, blessed are you, and then names what is specific to the occasion. A longer grace follows a meal with bread.

A Talmudic tradition urges a hundred blessings a day. The habit trains attention: in traditional practice nothing is eaten without a word of gratitude first.

Why the words are not here

This is a class of prayers rather than one, and the individual blessings are short enough that the edition question is the whole question. They would come from Singer 1890 alongside the rest of that volume.

Every text on this site names the edition it came from and was checked against it twice. A prayer nobody can cite an edition for does not get printed here, however well known it is. The verification record lists what was held back and why, and how rights are established explains the test.

When people look for this

The moments this prayer is associated with. Each page carries cited guidance on how different traditions meet that moment.

Where it belongs

Every prayer on this site

This page describes a prayer and, where we hold one, prints a named edition of it. It does not tell you whether to say it, or when. That judgment belongs to someone credentialed in the tradition, and nobody has signed anything here.